Thursday, October 28, 2010

Recycled Afghan Project in Progress

A few months ago I posted about recycling the yarn from various afghans. The first one I started with was one that I had made quite a few years ago. This is the afghan before I took it apart:

When I needed something mindless to work on over the last few months, I pulled out the balls of yarn from this afghan and have been making these 11 x 11 inch squares. My tentative plan is to sew them together into a rug. The crocheting is very tight so the squares are pretty sturdy and I think could hold up fairly well as a decorative rug.

Here are the five squares I've completed so far along with the current balls of yarn I'm working with. I believe I got about 14 large balls from the afghan:

And here is a closeup of a couple of the blocks. I just weave in the next color when I run out of the previous one and then trim the ends once the block is done. I'm using different balls of yarn at the same time to make sure I have enough variety of color in each block. I'm not real pleased with the one that ended up with so much white, but I'm hoping that if I put it between blocks with only a small amount of white, that it will balance out.

I've been lax lately about taking pictures of the felines, but I did get a couple recently. Here's miss princess (Sassy) surveying her kingdom from atop the plant shelf.

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And poor Echo. Maya decided that he needed a bath again yesterday *sigh*. She is very thorough and he is very tolerant except if she tries to wash his private parts LOL. Yesterday she just licked and licked and licked for about five minutes before he got tired of it and walked away. She just followed him and started up again LOL.

1 comment:

Nice work putting all those afghan blocks together. Re-working at its best! I just finished crocheting all the yarn I had for an afghan last night...all the same yarn so it just looks green....I think I need another skein and it will be wide enough. Thanks for the inspiration to do crochet again!And isn't it nice that Echo is 'finally' clean :-) Poor tolerant kitty! I used to have a cat that licked the dogs (and people) as long as they could take it.

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